The concept of participation has a long and complex history. It is also inextricably linked to other cognate issues like the nature of universals, analogy, perfect being theology or the problem of evil. I envisage the mini conference as an exploration of the metaphysical tradition of ‘participation’ (i.e. in the sense of μέθεξις rather than κοινωνία). It is a central concept of Thomism and yet ...

ibn meymun and qazi saeid qomi both believe there is no likeness between god and his creatures; he is completely different from his creatures in all forms and sense. they also refute the view that god has any positive essential attribute and claim that god’s negative attributes are his true attributes since positive attributes of god imply polytheism. based on this, they contend two things: neg...

Among the most important Jewish encounters with other cultures and civilizations, the encounter with Islamic culture was, in our view, the most important. This encounter was in some aspects like their encounter with the ancient civilization, but the impacts were more valuable and constructive. Under Islamic rule, the Jews not only had a sense of security but also enjoyed a relatively satisfacto...

T HE idea that God is One, as expressed, for example, in the Shema Yisrael: "Hear 0 Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is One," comes in part to this: there is but one God (if there's any at all). But it also comes to this: God is a unity, not a "heap." Insofar, God's oneness doesn't differ from the oneness of, say, legs attached to my right side; there's just one, and it's a unity, not a "heap...

An unlettered Israelite should not marry a woman of priestly descent, since this constitutes in a way a profanation of the seed of Aaron. Should he marry her nevertheless, the Sages have said that the marriage will not prove successful, and he will die childless, or else he or she will come to an early death, or there will be strife between them. On the other hand, it is laudable and praisewort...

1916), believed that whitening of hair was related to pigment absorbed and carried away by phagocytes he observed in the vicinity of dystrophic hair follicles and called 'pigmentophages' [9]. In 1981, Guin et al. [10] reported a lady whose hair turned white over 3 months with hair thinning but no patches of alopecia. Immu-nofluorescence studies demonstrated immune deposits along the follicular ...

1 a drug is considered to be essential if it is " as relevant today as it was 20 years ago, " and it is assessed on the basis of 4 principles. The drug must be evidence-based, efficient, flexible and forward looking. We propose here that chicken soup be classified as an essential drug; not only does it comply with these requirements, but it can be considered as relevant today as it was 2000 yea...

S tress has long been recognised to be associated with asthma. Hippocrates stated that to prevent an asthma attack ''the asthmatic should guard himself against his own anger'' [1]. Maimonides in his treatise of asthma suggested that ''mental anguish, fear, mourning or distress'' may cause asthma whereas ''gaiety and joy'' which ''gladden the heart and stimulate the blood and mental activity'' m...